Volume 1

Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart].

  • Andrew Stuart
Date:
[1773]
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Credit: Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield. From Andrew Stuart, esq. [On the Douglas Peerage Cause.] / [Andrew Stuart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] Douglas’s delivery is faid to have happened, and during the 16 months while her child is fuppofed to have been under the care of the accoucheur. Being bred to the fame profeffion with his brother Louis Pierre, they ufed to afliil each other in that bufmefs, and lived in great in¬ timacy, infomuch that fcarcely a day pafc without their meeting together, in the courfe of the years 1748 and 1749* Belides thefe perfons, feveral furgeons of the acquain¬ tance of Delamarre, and feveral of his intimate friends, were examined during the courfe of the proof in France ; but particularly Madame Beanjeu, midwife at Paris, and Mr. Beanjeu, her hufband, two of the mod intimate friends that Delamarre had in the world ; they were the perfons who, on the footing of that intimacy, had made his marriage in 1747, and are figning witneffes to his marriage contract; and it appears from their depo¬ sitions, that they continued in that intimacy with him till the day of his death. All thefe perfons concurred in the information which they gave to both parties, and in declaring or depofing, that they never heard of Delamarre’s delivering Lady Jane Douglas ,—-Or of his delivering any foreign Lady of twins,—-Or of his having had the charge of the child of any foreign Lady, during 16 months, or any other period* - If this man, Delamarre, had a£tually delivered Lady Jane Douglas of her twin fons, and had the charge of one of her children during fo many months, and, in con- fequence thereof, had been engaged in a weekly corref- pondence with a Milord Anglois, father of that child, (which is a part of the hiftory infeparably connected with the. accoucheur of Lady Jane) thefe were fuch remarkable incidents in the life of this obfcure mean furgeon, Dela¬ marre, that it exceeds the bounds of human belief to imagine, that in a matter which required no fecrecy, ^-Menager alone ihould have heard of all or any part of thefe